God Bless Navigators

I remember the old family holidays. It was the year we bought our first car. I was in primary school. My father's driving was also new, so it was difficult to read the lable father ts and drive, in addition living in a Turkey.  A little not for the onew who doesn't know Turkey, orientation of lables are really bad to start with. There is no warning first of all. Just after coming to diversing roads you will see lable to turn. One a time my  father took a wrong turn and have to go 50 km afterall. Since then he hate the city İzmir. 

Turkish people like to visit their families and stay at home in their holidays. So we don't really know how to use map, and we have no idea about directions. When I was in my Erasmus term I was impressed about foreign frends navigating skills. I was so bad, that my boyfriend used me a compass. One day we were in the metro and he asked me which way out. I showed him the direction I think its right but after he told ok we are walking in the opposide direction, since your directioning is bad.(He was right!) One a time an Erasmus friend tried to teach me the using of a map and said ok now you are having map and showing us the direction but after going too far away from our target he took the control.

Enough talk about my directioning, now its time for my bad experiences of bad directioning. First of you should know about Turks. We like to help people a lot. So much that even thought we don't know we tried to help, so we answer your question about direction. I had had a rule about it. To being sure you should have ask at least 3 person the direction. Now I am saying you should have ask at least 5. One a time were supposed to go to Kadıköy(a discrit in İstanbul). We asked 3 people on the way for the bus going to Kadıköy. But after listening them and taking the bus for Kadıköy we had realised the bus is actually coming from Kadıköy and going to a very far place. In the middle of the night me and my sister found ourselves in a very very strange place andworse, the work shift of the buses were finished.

There are also some cities with weird directionings. Eskişehir is one of them. When ever I asked for the direction I never got a good answer. One time somebody told me:" Go directly, turn nowhere, then turn right!" Very clear ha?!

Another thing you should know about Turkey is we have strange direction skills. When you are asking for direction dont surprise when people talking about McDonals, Burker King, KFC. 

-Excuse me I want to go to this place. Can you tell me how?

- Of course. Go directly until you see McDonals on the right part of the road turn right on the second side road. Then you will see the place.